Nashville’s RePublic Schools will call a Brick Church Pike building home to its new high school in August.

The $2 million purchase for RePublic High School’s campus will house 150 students upon opening and is expected to grow to 950 by 2021, according to Ravi Gupta, co-founder and managing partner of the network. The expansion of the charter system is part of a longstanding plan created in 2010 when the group was authorized to operate by Metro Nashville Public Schools.

“Our commitment to families when we recruited for the three schools is to see them through to college,” Gupta said.

The building at 3307 Brick Church Pike was purchased from the operators of Smithson-Craighead Academy. That school has moved to a new location at 730 Neely’s Bend.

RePublic is partnering with Self-Help Credit Union, a nonprofit banker, to help fund renovations at the building. Expansions will occur as the charter adds more students to the campus. In total, the building is expected to receive more than $10 million in work.

The school, dedicated to science, will further the mission of the network in teaching students skills that include computer coding, robotics and advanced math. RePublic seeks to prepare students for work in the tech field.

Gupta understands a new school comes with numerous challenges, especially in adding a high school.

“The social and emotional character of the program has to be more intricate and thoughtful,” Gupta said of serving high schoolers. “We will be bringing in more advisers and mentors and finding ways to challenge beyond academic work.”

The charter has focused on working primarily with low-income students. In 2013, RePublic’s Nashville Prep and Liberty Collegiate Academy were ranked by Stanford University and the state as top performers in the charter school category.

“Our seventh-graders, now eighth-, had the highest math grades of all students in Tennessee,” Gupta said. “That is despite many coming from ZIP codes written off by many policymakers. Our next commitment is getting them through a world-class high school.”